Political jinxes are almost impossible to break, BJP must have concluded. On Monday, the saffron party lost from Vyara in South Gujarat and Jasdan in Rajkot district of Saurashtra… for the 13th consecutive time! Such is the saffron party’s misfortune that despite bigwigs like PM Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah campaigning in these two constituencies this time, it failed to open its tally here. On Monday, Congress’s Puna Gamit got 88,576 votes from Vyara, a seat reserved for scheduled tribes. He defeated Arvind Chaudhari of BJP who could manage just 64,162 votes.

In Jasdan, Kunwarji Bavalia, also a Congress candidate, won 84,321 votes, putting behind BJP’s Dr Bharat Boghra who got 75,044. Neither Gamit nor Bavalia is new to his constituency. Gamit had won from Vyara in 2007 and 2012. He had also won the byelection from here in 2004. On the other hand, this is the fifth win for Bavalia from Jasdan who had earlier won in 1995, 1998, 2002 and 2007. This is the 13th Assembly election in Gujarat since its formation in 1960, but only once did a BJP candidate, Boghra, manage to win in Jasdan, that too in a by-poll.

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